Microscopic Life in Early-Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Literature and Performance
Language: English
Published by Open Book Publishers, 2026
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- Title
- Microscopic Life in Early-Twentieth- and Twenty-First-Century Literature and Performance
- Publisher
- Open Book Publishers
- Publication year
- 2026
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
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- 1805117912
- ISBN 13
- 9781805117919
This volume provides a groundbreaking interdisciplinary collection exploring how literature and performance engage with life at microscopic scales. Responding to an era dominated by planetary thinking, the volume turns attention to the invisible biological dimensions that shape our imagination of life, community, and ecology. Drawing from North American and European case studies, the volume's essays and creative works examine how fiction, poetry, theatre, dance, installation art and museum practices render microbial and cellular processes perceptible, to enable new ethical and political relationships across species and scales.
The volume's originality lies in its comparative approach to performance, artistic practice, and literature, as well as in the parallels it explores between the early twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. Integrating biopolitical philosophy, new materialism, and post-humanist theory, Microscopic Life examines innovative concepts such as microbiopolitics, probiotic ethics, multispecies community, and metabolic welcoming.
'Microscopic Life' will appeal to scholars and students of literature, performance studies, and the medical and environmental humanities, as well as artists, curators, and practitioners interested in the intersections between science, art, and ecology. It offers an inspiring resource for readers curious about how creative practices can reimagine life at its smallest-and most vital-scales.
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About the Author
Sarah Bouttier is Assistant Professor of English at the École Polytechnique in Paris (IP Paris) and a member of Prismes (Sorbonne Nouvelle). She has published widely on the nonhuman in literature and modern and contemporary poetry as well as on posthumanism, ecofeminism and literature and science. Sarah is co-editor of Legacies of Ursula K. Le Guin: Science, Fiction, Ethics (Palgrave). She is the author of a forthcoming monograph, Ecopoetics of Agency: Writing With The Nonhuman in Modernist and Contemporary Poetry (Bloomsbury, 2026).
François-Joseph Lapointe is an artscientist from Montréal (Canada) with a PhD in evolutionary biology and a PhD in dance and performance studies. As a scientist, he has published 150 papers ranging from molecular systematics and population genetics to metagenomics. As an artist, he applies biotechnology as a means of dance composition, and he has created the field of choreogenetics. For his recent projects, he is sequencing his microbiome (and that of other humans) to produce microbiome selfies. His work has been exhibited in the USA, Canada, France, Switzerland, Germany, Austria, Denmark, UK, Chile, and Australia.
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